home cooked theory

Checking in and checking out

In another instance of outsourcing labour and discharging accountability, Qantas now encourages customers to check in online the night before a flight to prevent the likelihood that your seat will be given to someone else. The company’s policy to routinely oversell flights is now taken to be our responsibility; merely showing up on time for [...]

Twitter whores and Facebook flakes

I wish I’d seen this before my “Always On” talk. Would have helped in question time.

Part Two is also pretty funny. I got this from a comment on Mark Deuze’s Facebook page – it was offered by one of his friends as an initiation present.
Mark’s blogpost this week makes me realise I’m not [...]

Work on TV

This time next week I’ll be in Melbourne speaking at Monash University’s Film and Television series, Under Construction. Loyal Home Cooked Theory reader and brilliant film scholar Adrian Martin has generously invited me to share some of the thinking behind one of my current projects, “Work on TV.”
This will be an early version of [...]

Always on: the take homes

Last week I gave a paper in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies’ regular Tuesday seminar series. It introduced a number of the themes emerging from two rounds of interviews for my research fellowship.
Presence bleed: Because a lot of previous studies of home-working focus on ‘teleworkers’ or ‘remote workers’ I introduced the term [...]

Day Two – Research

Guest post by Emily Potter. Emily is an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. Her current research, funded by an ARC Discovery Grant held with Professor Paul Carter, focuses on the poetics of place, and the work of public art in the remaking of environments. She [...]

Workplace culture

Email to all staff from Director, HR
Academic Staff feedback sought for UQ brand concepts
Two discussion groups specifically for academic staff are being held to seek feedback on UQ brand concepts as part of the INSIGHT Project, as follows:
12:00pm, Tuesday September 2nd 2008; Rm 316, level 3, JD Story – light lunch provided.
12:00pm, Wednesday 3rd September [...]

Day Three – Outreach

Guest post by Clif Evers. Clif is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He is Co-Editor of Kurungabaa – A journal of literature, history and ideas for surfers, and Altitude – A journal for emerging humanities research in Australia. Clif co-convenes the ‘early [...]

The Work of Media Consumption

We are half way through the Advanced Cultural Studies course I’ve been teaching this semester with my colleagues Graeme Turner and Mark Andrejevic. I thought I’d share the course outline to give a sense of what we’ve been up to.

Advanced cultural studies: The work of media consumption

July 23
New media utopias and dystopias
Group discussion

Readings
• Axel Bruns, [...]

Publish

A couple of publishing things to share! I am so happy to see that ‘The Normalization of Flexible Female Labour in the Information Economy’ has just been published in the latest Feminist Media Studies. I haven’t been making a habit of on-blog spruiking lately, but right now, a little overwhelmed by a number of half-finished, [...]